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Author Pirseyedi, Bobi

Title Arms Control and Iranian Foreign Policy : Diplomacy of Discontent
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (305 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics
Routledge studies in Middle Eastern politics.
Contents Front Cover; Arms Control and Iranian Foreign Policy; Copyright Page; Contents; List of abbreviations; Preface; Introduction: aims and analytical framework; Research problem; Sources and research procedures; Arms control and Iranian foreign policy: key concepts; The problem of war and arms control; Broad understanding of arms control; Objectives of arms control diplomacy; Arms control policy-making in Islamic Iran; Key policy-makers: the Khomeini years; Key policy-makers: the Rafsanjani presidency; Key policy-makers: Iran under Khatami; Diplomatic actors and the bureaucratic elite
Consensus principleStructure of the book; Part One Conventional arms control; 1 Islamic Iran and the Shah's military legacy; Iran's military build-up under the Shah; Entering the stage: the provisional government and arms control; From principles to concrete threats; 2 Arms control in the context of war: the Iran-Iraq conflict; Arms control as a remedy for injustice; Limits of ideology; Arms control as a remedy for military weaknesses; Iraq's missiles; Naval theater of the war; 3 From the cease-fire to global security networking; Post-war rearmament program
Iran's diplomacy in the immediate post-war periodGulf conflict of 1990-1; Challenging the new order; Khatami's dialogue among civilizations; Micro-disarmament; Micro-disarmament; Anti-personnel mines; Small arms control; Part Two Chemical and biological arms control; 4 Iraqi chemical threat; Emergence of the threat, 1980-3; Diplomatic offensive, 1984-6; Iranian diplomacy in 1984; Iranian diplomacy in 1985-6; Diplomatic endgame, 1987-8; Iran's own chemical weapons; 5 Iran's post-war chemical diplomacy; From the cease-fire to the CWC; Immediate post-war period
From the Gulf conflict to the signing of the CWCImplementation of the CWC; Treaty ratification; Iran as a state party; 6 Islamic Iran and biological arms control; From the revolution to the cease-fire; From the cease-fire to the Ad Hoc Group negotiations; Ad Hoc Group years; Article X; Verification; Biological weapons use; Biological arms control in the Middle East; Iran's interest in biological weapons; Demise of the Ad Hoc Group; Part Three Nuclear arms control; 7 Formation of a diplomatic approach; Iran's nuclear program; The Shah legacy; Islamic Iran's nuclear activities
Nuclear issues in the warOpposition to nuclear weapons; Regional nuclear arms control; Diplomatic objectives versus foreign policy goals; 8 From the cease-fire to the test-ban treaty; Global issues; Iran and the test-ban treaty; Initial talks; Toward the agreement; Regional issues; Peaceful nuclear activities; Diplomatic objectives versus foreign policy goals; 9 From the test-ban to Iran's signing of the IAEA additional protocol; Diplomatic continuity; Missile arms control; Iranian nuclear activities; Iran and the Bush administration; Iran and the IAEA; New information; Diplomatic process
Summary Since 2003, when the world learned that the Islamic Republic of Iran had succeeded in secretly developing a capability to enrich uranium and separate plutonium, the question of Iran's nuclear program has ranked high on the international political and arms control agenda. This book studies the IRI's diplomatic operations in the issue area of arms control and demonstrates how arms control diplomacy has formed an integral part of the IRI's foreign policy during the various phases of its history. Furthermore, it fills a gap in the research literature on Iran's foreign and security policies by prov
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Arms control -- Iran -- History
Disarmament -- Iran -- History
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Arms Control.
Arms control
Disarmament
Diplomatic relations
Military policy
SUBJECT Iran -- Foreign relations -- 1979-1997. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86003373
Iran -- Foreign relations -- 1997- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh98004956
Iran -- Military policy
Subject Iran
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136229565
1136229566